Buncey's Shameless Hyping of Haye v Audley Has Given Many Fans a Bum Steer

He was hyping it big on 5live as well which I'd imagine has pretty big listening figures (I'll leave it to others to make them up though )

It's not the fact that he hyped the fight to however many people. It's just that he hyped it. We thought Bunce was always going to be the man to call a spade a spade and not feed us the usual sky ****. Seems not.

 

Why was he trying to sell the fight? He's meant to be a journalist not a promoter.

 

It was hardly Buncey's fault was it.

 

Buncey was talking **** and often is but none of the casual fans listen to him.

 

Mate, your a quality poster but your so wrong on this. We need the casuals to jump onboard to make boxing more successful, we need their money and viewing figures to improve the state of boxing.


Look at it like this;
You are joe bloggs who is a lorry driver, you listen to talksport or fivelive for example and listen to football pundits who know ****all about boxing talking it up as a 50/50 fight, you read the paper and all you read is the fight and how they are both gonna knock each other out. You turn on sky sport news to check your football teams result and you see audley and haye bad mouthing each other. All this media attention and 'experts' talking it up as a barnburner, you get sucked into the hype and you believe your going to witness something great, something spectacular in fact.

You order the fight due to listening to folks like buncey chatting **** like audley can land that left and its goodnight and haye can land the 'haye-maker' and devastate audley etc etc.

You watch the joke of a 'fight' and its one-sided nature, audley looks like he left the gas on at home and waits to be ko'd, startled like a rabbits in the headlights. He then gets ko'd and you think what a load of bollocks that was, never again will i pay £15 to watch such a debacle, you are even angered and start slagging it off to your mates down the pub who all feel the same.

HOW CAN THAT BE GOOD FOR BOXING??? :huh

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When all boxing fans were screaming for haye's head for ducking the klits, and haye vs audley was being bandied around. He said the fight made money sense and that the general public would like to see the fight.

He was one of the main people who favoured this fight in taking place, sky didn't show the war that was kessler v froch, nope they show this shower of **** instead. How many time will sky get away with this load of bollocks, i love the way the pundits in the sky team all started to tell the truth and slag audley off once people were watching the fight. As soon as the £14.95 was paid, the customer got the truth, especially after the fight when wee barry ripped audley apart...

Buncey was a great face for boxing, now he should start selling dodgy cars/kitchens cos he sold us a dodgy fight. The man has no conscience else he would of called this fight for what it was. A farcical piece of match making and media hype...

 

I agree 100%. The very fact you could hear their opinions was because you had already paid your money and been sucked in. You basically had to pay £14.95 to upgrade your subscription to hear how **** the fight was actually going to be.

 

Cheers pal :good

The way I see it though, is, if I am all of those things the chances are I am not somebody who is going to buy PPV anyway.

So, worst case scenario is that I bought one PPV hated it and will never buy another one again (which I wouldn't have anyway) so have we really lost anything?

The only first hand experience I can tell you of though is my old man. Played football and rugby all of his life not really a boxing fan, the only fight I've ever known him get up in the middle of the night for is Bruno Tyson I. If I'm watching domestic boxing he'll tell me to knock it off cos it's ****. He is not a boxing fan in any sense of the word.

Last week though, he really got taken in with it all. I got home from work early one day and he was watching Haye-Ruiz on anytime. I asked him what he was up to and he was just having a look.

Then he started watching the build up programmes, the documentary, Ringside, the weigh-in ****ing everything.

I gave him £15 Saturday night and he said don't worry I'll pay for this one.

Watched the fight - utter **** as expected.

I thought that was the end of it.

Got up sunday morning, missed call off my old man.

Rung him.

His first words to me - ''**** me that Manny Pacquiao is good isn't he?''

He'd got up at 4am to watch the Pacman fight - I couldn't believe it.

Now I know this isn't going to be the case everywhere, but if a 1000 people did this, it's a 1000 people more than if the promotion had not been put out there. If people weren't made to think it was a 50:50 fight and if people didn't buy the PPV under false advertising.

If week Saturday I say to my old man, 'Dad, there's a great fight on tonight', I know he's far more likely to watch it now than he was a fortnight ago.

I don't think it was all bad :good

 

If Buncey didn't get the round 3 tip he must be fuming.

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl

For all the brown-nosing he does, he should be quids in. No wonder he wanted the fight to be made...

 

Good post, will agree to disagree with the debate tho :good

 

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Brummylad agree with everything you've said, good posts.:thumbsup

 

It is a business they really did their job and I give them all the props for doing a great job and your pissed because you bought into it bro we all have choice's and you bought into it so don't blame somebody for doing a great job, the picture was already painted and tou liked it sorry no refunds live with it.:good

 

Where to start...I think on the William Hill podcast I went for round 3!
All I ever wanted was a fight to take place. Sadly, it never did. So, for every genius out there who knew that Audley would freeze and throw just one punch I bow my head and hope that you had a nice bet.
I have a show on BBC London that talks to about six fighters each week and to imagine that I've helped make this a record-breaking fight is both a compliment and a delusion as wide as Audley's very own.
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